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I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.

I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.
I want.

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.


Lift your hips for me, love.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

I’ve wanted you from the moment we met, and if you think sitting next to me in your bra doesn’t overwhelm me with desire, you’re very wrong. I just don’t force myself where I’m not invited. (Bones)

You're my sister," he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you"—he laughed soundlessly without any humor—"to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do."
Clary's breath caught. "You said you just wanted to be my brother from now on."
"I lied," he said. "Demons lie, Clary. You know, there are some kinds of wounds you can get when you're a Shadowhunter—internal injuries from demon poison. You don't even know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside. That's what it's like, just being your brother."
"But Aline—"
"I had to try. And I did." His voice was lifeless. "But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you." He reached out, trailed his fingers lightly through her hair, fingertips brushing her cheek. "Now at least I know why."
Clary's voice had sunk to a whisper. "I don't want anyone but you, either.

I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.

I want you. I want you so badly I can’t stand it. When you left, it felt like the world got darker. Like I couldn’t truly see anything. Couldn’t feel anything.

I love you. I want to do everything with you. I want to marry you and have kids with you and get old with you. And then I want to die the day before you do, so I never have to live without you.

When you want something this badly, you don't just give up. You fight and fight until you absolutely can't fight anymore.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

what you need and what you want aren't the same things,

You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath.

I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

All I ever wanted from you was to know that I was wanted
by
you.  That would have changed everything.

It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

If I have you for a day, I'll want you for a week. If I have you for a week, I'll want you for another week.

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

God doesn't want you to be happy, He wants you to be strong.

You asked about love. I don't know about love, Daphne. I just know I don't want anything but you. I don't want to anywhere but with you.

I know what it is to want something that could destroy you.

I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you.
I wanted you to let me in.
I wanted to know you in a way no one else did.
I wanted you, all of you.
That wanting nearly drove me mad.
And now that I have you, the only thing that terrifies me is having to go back to that place.
Having to want you all over again, with no hope of my desire ever being fulfilled.

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.

You’re everything I’ve ever wanted, Pigeon.
Just remember that when I take all of your money in the next poker game, I said, pulling off my shirt.

The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

I don't want anything to happen to you. You being hurt...that thought fills me with dread. I can't promise not to interfere, not if I think you'll come to harm." He pauses and takes a deep breath. "I love you, Anastasia. I will do everything in my power to protect you. I cann't imagine my life without you.

He
was
still a mystery to me. And God, did I want to play Nancy Drew.

Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely.

I don’t want there to be things you love about me, I want you to love all of me.

Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.